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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1906)
5 4v it Th Madras Pioheer Published every 'iiiur&dav by THE PIONKKIt CtlllblUlKO CO.- eUBS'ortlPTlN BATES S pae year... t $1.60 Six months........! N5 Threw innntliRnr; vs. .-... ,6t) ADVKKT18INUjjATK8 ON APPLICATION Entered 3 Mciind class ntntier Aitmist feU, 1001, At tin Postotfice nt Mndrns. Ore., under the Act of Congress (if March 0.187U. RSDAV ? AugUst 30, 1906 THE NEW GOLD STRIKE. There has no. cjoubt been a rich Btriko of gold made in take county, but the extent of it no one can yet say. It may lbe a rioti tpucUet and pl.iy oui with dentil, and this ran only "be determined by future proa jjecting. But the greatly exag gerated reports of the richness pf tht? finti are respons5 ble for Jhe rush ino the new fields, for rn,en wjlj be stampeded by a oid ecitemen when agricul Jural or commercial advantages whioh liad, been apparent to jthenj for years couldn't move .them.. Gold-lUat is a disease gnd t fyecomea epidemic, and svhoie mining camps will stam pede from place to place, in the hope of quickly acquired riches. j Like a snowball rolling down hill, these mining booms gather size and impetus as they go, sweeping all before them'. None tyith the gold-fever stop to question any of the wild stories Afloat. And yet, of the thou sands who follow the rush into Jih.e gold fields but few ever Strike it rich. We hear of these, jhut not one word of all the thousands who spend their lives in fruitless-search.- . J. VV. 3c M. A. Robinson & Company are putting in a private water system at itheir store, which will afford them good .fire protection as well as water supply for kit household and store purposes. The water will be pumped from their well to a large 3000-gallon tank built on top ol .their store, from which place it will be .distributed throughout the building. The tfall from the top of the building wit give dhem sufficient force, and with hose coup lings on both floors" of the building they ;wlll have good service for fire fighting purposes. The water will be pumped to the tank on the roof by a gasoline engine 'and pump, which has already been in stalled. The engine will also run a feed chopper for grinding up grain for feed. We are agents for the Superior Grain Brills, aloo the P. & 0. Flows, Disc barrows, etc. J. W. & M. A. Robin son & Co. A car load will bo in, in a abort time. t Clarence C. Ashley and bis sister, and their guest, Miss Schools of Boston, J. . .Campbell and family, and W. C. Moore . and family, who have been camping for a month past on the Santiam near the berry pitches, returned to their homes near this place last Saturday afternoon. They had a very pleasant camping trip, and were the most successful in securing berries, of ; any of the parties who went camping dur 'ing the summer, having picked and canned in all about 145 gallons of berries. - The ladies especially invited to cal and see ourjlate arrival of white en- ameled ware just received from Ger many. Sanford 8111 & Co, Last year the Pendleton Business Col- lege offered a scholarship to the eighth grade pupil of any school in this county "who should receive the highest grade at the examination held last May, and yes terday Professor Fulton received notice that the scholarship had been awarded to Miss tfertha Conroy of this place. Miss '.Conroy is receiving the congratulations of ' her friends here, who take a pardonable pride in the distinction she has won for herself and the Madras school. If you are going to buy a new buggy this Fall we would ask you to call and ee our new Hue which will be here in "Madras soon. J, W. & M, A. .Robin son. & Co, ' Don P. Rea spent several days in Bend during the week, visiting at the home of ' W. E. Guerin Jr., who came out with his 1 family from Cleveland, Ohio, to spend the summer months on the Deschutes. Gome and make your selection of a suit of clothes while the stock Is all f full and you can get the size you want. Banford Sill & Co. " Culver school district is making prepar ation for a dance and ice cream social to , 1 be given at the Culver hall Sept. 7, the ' proceeds to be for the benefit of the dis trict. Everybsdy invited to attend, ' Mrs. Lena M. Lamb is building a grain-warehouse on Her homestead half a 1 mile seuthwest of town, for storing grain 'bought by her, ' Gaarge Steverw and family want 10 Princvilk this wornwg for a short Vuit, DEERT FARMING WITHOUT IRRIGATION The Simple, Inexpensive "Campbell" System of Working tlio Soil mat Produces Abundant crops In Arid Regions -The Story Of Its Discovery, Its Alethods, Its Results. Tho following article by Mr Hurbort Quick was published In tho Auust num ber of World's Work 11 U filled with Interesting facts about the wonderful C..mp -ell system of dry land farmlntr, the. application M Which ha revolutionized tho fanning Industry In tho soml-nrld regions of tfda 'country. This article la pun ished by pormlsslon of tho publishers of WiMd's Work. '(CopyrlghtlWO, by Doubleday, rgo Company Alt rights rfisirved.) tell farmer's hnw to accomplish the tyhen the "arid West" la spoken of we are apt to think or the weftern parts of Kansas, Nebraska and the Da koias. The eastern p irtlonn of thefe Mates are admirable farming regloni, uil the climate shades off into aridity so RHidually that no Hue of demarca tion was visible to the myriads of. movers" borne by rapid waves ot Immigration .eyond the limits within which ordinary farming can succeed. Therefore the situation In these state has attracted most attention. But the eastern plains of Montana, Wyoming. Colorado and New Mexico, all of Ok luhnma, and northern Texas, are purls of the same great plain and have sim ilar climatic conditions, and vani areas or the valleys from the Rookie 10 the Pacific are regions o'f eont rainfall. Altogether there are proba bly triors than 2,W)0,000 In the Uultei Btatea who farm, precariously jipou dry prairies under; Industrial coudl lions never paralleled in the history or American agriculture. This Bta-e- mentwlll. meet vrompt denial from 1 same results Without them. The syH ten consists ma-nly In deep plowing, einsut'aofl packing and cnuetant bIihI low cultivation of tho KUrfauc. AM thece are nieniiB towards the ante end or retaining moisture, w I Hi In reach of tho plant roots and reducing evapora tion to a minimum. The results ob tained seem to warrant the prophecy or an agricultural revolution iu the sub-humid belt. Deep ploA'Ing, Mr. Campbell says. Is n-eessury to tho rormatlnn of an amplo reservoir for the retention of water Tho prairie soils have lain oiiHilrrei! for centuries, and the pass Mire of water through them has result ed In a sort o'f a columnar formation. Through tbe Interstices between these "column" the water runsdowuward by gravity, and the little columns act as wlik, drawing it buck to the Sur face by 'capillarity. As long as the tops or these wleka are ezpored to the action or ftie winds, the rapid evapor ation that occurs from the surface the laud agencies which, during the keeps in Wtloti the endless upward past few years, bate been taJkftfg ad vantage of another cycle of excessive raiufall to refill tbe plains with Immi grants. 'For there has bten another "boom" In fact another boom Is now on. But no protestations from inter ested persons, however boueat, can the views of tbe student of theie climates. Unless tbe Campbell method of farming Is generally adopt ed and applied with success, we may expect with a recurrence of dry years a repetition of the distressful condi tions which spread ruin over these communities in the early nineties. Yet there are two Bides to the truth about these arid regions; they are not cultivable wita profit by ordinary methods, but by tbe adoptjou of this cieutitlc cultivation, it seems proba ble that the brighter pictures painted by tbe land agent may be more than realised. Mr. Campbell's knowledge of the conditions to be overcome cam- through a ripe experience in the droughts and hot winds of the Tipper James River Valley in South Dakota, where be began bis experiments 23 years ago. Here are tbe elements of the problem to whose solutiou he ad dressed himself: A great plain of almot uniformly level surface; a wonderfully fertile soil; a sub-humid atmosphere giving an average normal rainfall or only 15 or 20 inches; a capricious climate, sub ject to sharp deviations from the nor mal; hot and thirsty southerly winds in summer; warm and dry "Cbi nooks' in winter, Out of these conditions, and in spite of them, to develoo some plan of successful farming witbout irriga tion, might well have dauuted any oue but an enthusiust. Tbe hooks had laid down tbe la that severedrougtns are to be expected wbenover the mean annual rainfall is less than 60 iuche, with a mean annual deviation from the normal of more than 12 per cent., and that for successful farming witb out irrigation a rainfall exceeding 20 inches Is necessary. These state ments, reinforced by bitter experience, seemed to ueed no further proof. The one comforting fact yielded by clima tology was that tbe months of greatest precipitation in all this great central plain are in tbe months of May, June and July, tbe season of growing crops. Clinging to this strand of comfort, Mr. Campbell went to work anew. The first result of bis Yankee "figur ing" was this: that an inch of rain fall is about 150 tons of water per acre; that 12 In i-hea of rainfall, if it could be kept in tbe ground, Is amply suffi cient to mature a crop of five tons per acre, and hecce, that in tbe dryest year of his dearth, there was more rainfall than tbe crops needed. The trouble was evaporation, not defi cient rainfall. Upon this truth all bis subsequent work was founded. To follow the devious course of bis experiments since J 883, with their varying succees and failure bow be grasped every suggestion of leaf and blade and studied tbe effects of wagon tracks and hoof prints in tbe wheat fields, and how he waa ridiculed by tbe skeptics whom he sought to bene fitwould bo to tell a long story, Gradually, however, be has perfected bis system and won moguition, and his labor has convinced those who have studied it that the redemption of tbe "arid West," If it is to come at ail, must come through tbe adoption of tbe system of tillage developed by his patience. It Is pot a patented or monopolized system, though Mr. Campbell has In vented various machines. A great part of bis writings and of his talks to current of moisture to lie borne away and wanted hy thirsty Urzr. Dep ptnwiuir, burying ilte tops of these col umns under from eight, to 12 Inches of Immer soil, fffecMvely checks the movement. But Wp pinwlng alone ih not pufilclein. The broken ground niiisi r-c-ive euch treatment at once after plowing, as will prevent Its dry ltx by evaporation, while still allow ing the fulling rain to sunk Into It eas ily, anil also, keeping tho hoisting chain or capillarity trning beneath the Hurfaee, to lift moist tiro o hut not pft the root bed from deep In the earth. And this treatment is the new Idea. The subsurface, from the bottom or 1 he plowed uroiinil to wl hln three or four Inches or the surface, must be firmly packed, while the surfare soil must remain Innxe and mellow and must be Immediately pulverized by the harrow. Now, ptpkh-K" sug Kestaat once the old-fashioned roller But this timo honored Imp'ement will not iln. It packs tho surface hut hard ly affects fhe soil live or six inches down. It roils alone upon a crust of its own forming Even when followed by the harrow, it fails to m-et tbe re quirements or th new method. But the subsurface may lis packed with implements round on everv farm, and Mr. Campbell ha defined m special tool for this work. An Inspection or tue neins at tits experiment stations convinces one that this suhsnrfare paekii g is the essential proc-ss in his system, vital to the necessary hoard ing or moisture. The reason that packing Is indlipen-H-lile seems iilain. The plow turns clods, stubble, weeds and rubbish Un der tbe "slice," rormtrg many cavl ties. Across these cavities moisture cannot pasp by capillarity, hut tbe air chambers Increase evaporation. The vegetable matter itseir, dry and unde cayel, aids evaporation instead or re. tainiug moisture. The root-bed can not, bold mofnture unless It is firm; and unless moisture be retained tbe crop r.ils. ATer the deep plowing and tho sub surface packing, must follow constant ahallow surface eultlvatnn. The ob ject or this is two fold: to check evaporation, and to avoid disturbance of the plants' root-lied in which is car ried on tbe work of gathering support for tbe ktowiIi above. No long point ed shovels are permitted, So deep, and no deeper, must the cultivator run throughout the season. The ground, under this plan, after two or three cul tivations resembles a level floor ol fiim earth with two or three inches of dust spread over it. To be continu ed. Hauling water is not only expen sive but at the time you need It the most you are very busy harvesting and can spare the time tbe least, and now as harvest is about over if you would dig your cistern and cement It and have it all ready, then haul your water during the winter months while you have tbe most idle time, then you would have a good supply of water when you are busy. For your house une it would be pice if you would first fill your cistern with snow then with water; do not open it until about May, and you will be surprised to find what you have at your door. Sanford, Hill & Co. sell the cement. For Sale. One grain drill, one sulky plow, one pair bob-sleds, one 1 wide tire wagon with hayrack, two two-year-old mate colts (on range), one Durham cow, one Jersey cow. For particulars address or call on F. J. Brooks, Madras, my agent. J. A. Messinger. t For Sale for Cash. Two head work horses, 2 unbroko horses, 1 setdoublo harness, 1 H-inoh walking plow, 10 tous of hay. In quire of D. W. Harnett, 3 miles north of Culver. Telephone connection, tf For Sale. Two Jersey heifers. For particulars apply to J. II. Horney, Madras, Or. R2-80 Take out that board from your win dow and get a pane ef glass from .San ford, 111 fc Co, For hent. Three hundred and dxty acres, located 7 miles feast of Madras 1 13$ Wt U'ide cultivation, asonctes tillable. Will lease for a term ol years, or hy the ya.r, till ..hares, flood comfortable huu fix rooms, And stables, RYanarv. .c. Oond well For particular Inquire al this ofllce. J'a,f I)oett l.-uiil, Filial I'mnf NOTICE FOR I'UlUiftjVriO Unit d States Liinil t Wu'O The Dalles. Uieu n, .iVily 18. lWfl. Nnllco Is hereby given tli.it Out. trim! Kniupfc, of Sli'anlkU Ve bu. Inn lUml notice or lnteiill -n to imikii pinof on his desiVt-liuidclidiii.No.. 410, mi the 11 nail iiwqunrnr,s.clO,ipOs,r.lo. w tu. he foio the Bi'Kbter 11 ltd ertdV- r at The Dalles. Oregon, (to thu'Slst'd.ty of AuguM., iOOfl. lie imtu'cs Yhu following witnesses to prove the comrMo Inlgatum and tecln inatlnu n said land: Perry l Monroe", 0. VI. MolMtersmi and A. kniiipiei, all of "h'a Iko. Oregon, and 0. Struascr, or .Mtulrni, 0 egou. MfCIIA'KI. T. Ntll.AN. J2tJ.ii23 HeftlsbT. NOTICG FOR PUBLICATION. Department or the Intel lor knnd Om'ce tit The I) d'ea, Oreuon, , , July mi, JWJrt. Notice Is hereby given Unit Daniel f-wtft or Culver, Oiepon, liio Hied notlcu tt his Intention to ma e hlual flw-j ear pruot in support or Id claiui 'T.l 'Homestead eiitn Ao 0116. 111 ule Juno 8, Ml, far tho xe quiuier see 18, tp 12 r 13 e, w 111, Ami that said proor will be made before I). P. Ilea, U. t. rmiiinlsMoiier, at his ofllco In .Madras. Oregon, on September 5, 190(5. t Hu'uani'S tin- follow! g witnesses to prov,u his cont'ituious residence upon, and iniltiviiii'.n of, t'lie laud. Viz: Josse 1), .sfea'pm, F el W. Hull. Frank F. Fls'cn, fill 'f Culvt r, Oicpm; and Frank M. Lovelaikl, ut Madras, Or go . Mil lUKt. I'. NOI.AN, nS-SO . Ueylster. NOTICE FOR PUULI0AUON. (Isolated Tract) I'nblic Laud Sale. U. S. Land Office, Tim D.dles. Or., August It, 1000. Notice is, liorjby Riven that directed by the Commissioner of the (iem ral haiul Office, Under provision-.! uf the act of Con gress approved June 27, ivUtl, Public No. SOU, we. will oirer at jm .lie sale, to the highest didder, ut 11 o cIock a. iu., on the 2tstday or September m xi', at this i.fllce, the to, lowing tract of land.to-wlt: The SK q mrtur NW quant-r of sec 8, tp iS s, r 1'S e, w ni. Any person claiming adversely the a ove-desuribud land are advised to Die their claims, or objections, on or be to Ti the day above designated for sale. Michael T. Nolan, Anna M. La.vo, Itegistcr. Hecelver. aQ-s'JO Notice for Publication. Department or the Interior, Land Ofllce at Tho Dalles, Oregon, July 80, 11)00. .Notice is hereby given that Walter D. Walker, of Ashwood, Oregon, has filed notice of his Intention to make final five year proof In support of his claim, viz: Homestead entry A'o 8075 made March 20, 1000, for the Lot 3, so quarter nw q tar ter, sw quarter ne quarter and nw quarter su quarter see. 5, tp ll s, r 17 e, w m, And that said proof will hu made before D. P. Kea, U. 8. Commissioner, at his nice In Madras, Oregon, on September 4, 1006. Ho names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, the land, viz: Edwin Elklns, Chester S. 3rcCorklc. Knox I). Huston, and Hubert F. Berry man, all of Ashwood, Oregon. Miojiael T. Nqlax, a2-W IteRlHtir. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior. Laud Ofllce at The Dalles, Or., July 30. 1000. Notice Is hereby given that William H. Crlswell, of MadruH, Oregon, has filed notice of - bis intention to make final live-year proof in support of hie claim, viz: HotneHtead entry No 7787, made November 28, 1890, for the so quarter sec 20, tp 10 H, r 14 e, w m, And that said proof will be made before I). P. Ilea, U. 8. Commissioner, at his olllce In MadraB, Oregon, on September 0, 1000. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous reiddunco upon, and cultivation of, the land, viz: A. 8. Phillips, W. H. Stonehocker. T. B. Tucker and J. 15. Campbell, all of Madras, Oregon. MiohaklT. Nolan, "2-80 Reglstor. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior. Land Oillco at The Dalles, Or., v , . , , July 80, 1000. :otIce is heroby given that John P. Monitor, of Madras, Oregon, lias filed notlco of bis Intention to make final commutation proof In support of bis claim, viz: Homestead Kntry No. 13008 made December 5, 100J, for the nw quarter fieo 35, tp 0 s, r 13 0, w m, And that said proof will bo inndo before Don P, Ilea, IJ. H, Commission, er, at bis oilloe in Madras, Oregon, on September 0, 1000.. lie names tho following witnesses to prove bis continuous residence upon and cultivation of, tho land, viz: CharleH F, Khtnu, William Drown hill, Bert LnomlB, Frank Slatiglaml, all of Madras, Oiegou. MtOItAKIi T NoiiAN, Itegliter, Matt Caaa af Snake. Eight rattlesnakes in one forenoon H h pictty good record, but that is ht hum ber that Urban llclnsck and Jakr Peter' ion kilted one day last week, wlrftte buy Ing for Mrs Andrew vibbcrt about Mx miles north Of this place. The largest ol the ''rattlers'1 bad 1 rattles ami a bwlnn to his credit. Helnnck, whs was pitching the hay onto the load, killed all ut itp snakes, which he found under the shocks ol hay. They Vave killed a huntber ol other rattlesnakes on the plains during harvest, but this Is the best d y's bMnei,s so far reported in that line. Uatllrsnakrs rue found along the Deschutes as far south as Crooked Utver but beyond that they arc only found rarely. In this 1m mediate locality they seem to have umisu ally plentiful this year. John A. lshan left on Ftlday tbdrnlnj for Blue River, where he goes to com plete the hunting trip he started on earlier in the year. On his first trip he was compelled to return to. Mndrns sooner than he expected, and so he is returning to Blue Kiver now to fill out the Vacation denied him then. He expects to return in two or three weeks. LOST. On tiaturday, Aug. 20, on the. road beVwoen Wurmsprlng and Mad ras, two halters mid a riding bridle Finder will recoive rowaril by leaving mime at Livingston's livery stable, Madras, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.Hamer were In own last Saturday from the Wnrmsprmg Agency where Mr. Hntner holds the po sition of "farmer' for the Government. ., rr Wm fl,,"trV thin HaHN helth,,.,, uiihw i,,t klll( 3r wij "UW pltlWM II..., I. "I IU wii'lr tt. . ' "l 1. 1 "oe hU n,il ft, I ..BI Cramer reruns gT,' hom a th.ee Wtek. 4 mm'miiiii h . . n tmm voodspot, ijy "i wm., a... ... .. . j breakup, uii 1. . w ' temher. it i. l" j (IUhh harr.w a.i.i JV.1 rUm, Ooioir, Jl you plow it wiilf,k Sale liv A..r....i . " QUI (JfJo riurrif it Km . , i -1 wii ana Urnity Mmlrnk nn I... r . ' taken un thir ...u... IH DrfVe lt,n.i' J rrintl.eV.,lIey,.B(ill6)r. t'lllll. ulnrU 4 ..L. '1 .Ill lUllVlll THE HEADQUAl i CAPITAL Perfect In slnd DpertlOrX eVfiRY RANCe VWtRWTCD The frugal housewife I desires - -. . THE BESl Ccoklnj Utensils She would be pk-utds UNH STOVES and RANGES For Sale By MTAGGART & BYf wmm Ar Ar IW 1 Madras, Oregon 151 s& GREEN HOTEL v'isi-sri'W'MuMiVi'rf,i''Vi'','sM i . ii-nr F. J. BROOKS, ropnew. The most popular house in the town. This is tbe place W f if yoi want the best meals, the best bedsjmd io courteous attention. Travelers' headquarters ,u, LIVERY & FEED STABLE J. W. LIVINGSTON, Matia in connection with hotel. First-class livery rifi ( notice. Transient stock well fed arid cared for. very reasonable, MADRAS, OREGON The ELK DRUG STI Carries a nice, clean, fresh line o( , 5, nnrl nnfont mMtu. PrefiCriptlO" dally. Mail orders given prompt jyfc d can get your medicines at any or night. A )(' fl '? tit'